If you're making a time travel movie, you must establish the rules in which the story is going to take place. That's basic stuff.
For me, the problem with Looper is that there's wasn't any explanation of how time travel works in that movie. In fact, when they are about to start talking about it, Bruce Willis' character just shuts down any possibility.
I mean, the most interesting thing about time travel is how it works and how is going to affect the story. Looper made a huge mistake on that, and so it lost me completely as a viewer. Is like 'anything can happen' with the telekinesis and the time paradoxes -that they didn't even try to explain-.
Though an interesting concept, I think Looper is an overrated mess.

Well, in real life that's what would happen. Not a lot of us would want to delve that deep into it if it's become such a common thing.

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Who the **** makes a movie and while planning it is like, "you know what this needs...is some Greg Kinnear."

If you're making a time travel movie, you must establish the rules in which the story is going to take place. That's basic stuff.
For me, the problem with Looper is that there's wasn't any explanation of how time travel works in that movie. In fact, when they are about to start talking about it, Bruce Willis' character just shuts down any possibility.
I mean, the most interesting thing about time travel is how it works and how is going to affect the story. Looper made a huge mistake on that, and so it lost me completely as a viewer. Is like 'anything can happen' with the telekinesis and the time paradoxes -that they didn't even try to explain-.
Though an interesting concept, I think Looper is an overrated mess.

I disasgree entirely. Wasting time establishing fake science is the oldest trope in the book for sci-fi films, and it's quite often the biggest downfall of most flawed efforts in science fiction.

It was an extremely ingenious move to take a thoroughly sci-fi setting and inject into it a thoroughly human story that had an extremely quaint and timeless morale/resonance to it.

I think it was a clever hand wave adding some realism to the whole thing. I didn't feel it was a cheat, more like a self aware "we know other movies do this all the time attempting to explain and be all psudeo sciencey...we ain't going that route."

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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. - Henry Ford
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Who the **** makes a movie and while planning it is like, "you know what this needs...is some Greg Kinnear."

If you're making a time travel movie, you must establish the rules in which the story is going to take place. That's basic stuff.
For me, the problem with Looper is that there's wasn't any explanation of how time travel works in that movie. In fact, when they are about to start talking about it, Bruce Willis' character just shuts down any possibility.
I mean, the most interesting thing about time travel is how it works and how is going to affect the story. Looper made a huge mistake on that, and so it lost me completely as a viewer. Is like 'anything can happen' with the telekinesis and the time paradoxes -that they didn't even try to explain-.
Though an interesting concept, I think Looper is an overrated mess.

To be fair, if I remember correctly, a deleted scene did explain their Time Travel more.

I will agree that the motivations of the characters made sense, but I think it would've had more of an emotional impact if

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Bruce Willis was just killing defenseless kids to prevent the future, as opposed to the main kid having super powers. Whoever decided to keep all of the telekinesis/kid stuff out of the marketing for that movie deserves a raise.

I should really get around to seeing Looper I guess. I had no idea there was telekinesis in it.

On an unwatched opinion though, I appreciate that it's not going the uber sci-fi route of explaining how time travel works; that's always a bore, especially when the movie ends up ignoring it's own rules.

I will agree that the motivations of the characters made sense, but I think it would've had more of an emotional impact if

Spoiler!!! Click to Read!:

Bruce Willis was just killing defenseless kids to prevent the future, as opposed to the main kid having super powers. Whoever decided to keep all of the telekinesis/kid stuff out of the marketing for that movie deserves a raise.

Hm, I guess. I dunno. The telekinesis wasn't what really bothered me.

What I couldn't stand was when they abandoned the whole sci-fi crime story to spend pretty much the entire second act stuck on a farm. A pretty boring farm at that. It just didn't do anything for me.